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James and Lily spend their summers together producing plays, though neither are happy about the presence of the other. With James, as the set designer, and Lily, as the actress, tensions run high.

Taking place directly after Harry's sixth year, "Soul Splitting" deals with the search for Horcruxes, as well as how Harry and his companions deal with the build up to the final battle against Voldemort. Along the way Harry must do his best to uphold the lessons Dumbledore taught him, which means putting his trust in someone he never would have imagined -- Draco Malfoy. Eventual Harry/Draco slash.

At sixteen, Harry made a terrible mistake that will cost him for the rest of his life. His new necromancer teacher saves him, giving him new abilities and a strange new appearance in the process. Over the course of three years, the war with Voldemort progresses and the Order of the Phoenix is losing. Even their most powerful Auror, Harry Potter, cannot stop the newly-immortal Dark Lord. Nineteen-year-old Harry decides to return to a time when he could. His sixteen-year-old self must take his place in the grim future. AU, time travel, themes of suicide/depression.

Hampered by bureaucratic red tape and a distinct lack of clues, Harry is nearly twenty one and is scarcely any further along with the Horcrux search than he was three years earlier. Only now - as Harry and Ron are taken firmly under the wing of the Auror Department, Hermione returns to London after two years of further study, and Ginny begins working for the deeply mysterious Cryptology Bureau - do the pieces start falling into place. Sinister affairs at Charlie's Romanian dragon camp spark a series of events which opens up a world of intrigue and begins a perilous quest that will take the quartet all over the globe. Exotic locations, dungeons, dragons, Unforgivable Curses, old friends (and foes!), and the essential ingredient, romance!

Three years post-HBP. Hermione and the Order want to break Harry out of Azkaban. The bespectacled twit got himself thrown in there when he failed to kill Lucius Malfoy subtly enough. Starts off H/G and R/Hr but Ron and Ginny are killed off in the first chapter. Hermione burns Harry in effigy, kills Draco, negotiates with a traitorous and unredeemable Snape, brews potions with Fleur, gets drunk with the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan, organizes an illegal jailbreak, writes columns for the Quibbler, and helps Harry come to terms with his Animagus form. This fic comes with a warning (aimed at diabetic readers) for an excessively sappy ending.

Over the summer, Harry Potter starts getting mysterious letters from a guy that claims he wants to apologize for all the stuff that is going on. Then, when he gets back to school, he finds out that someone is starting a band and decides to change his appearance so he has a chance to be in it. Who is this mysterious letter writer?

In the Christmas of their sixth year, a tragedy in the wizarding world sparks a change in the lives of Lily Evans and James Potter. *edited after HBP*

They settled back into their old roles with an eerie ease, talking and pacing and arguing and assuring like the war still wasn’t over, for maybe it wasn’t, maybe they had been foolish to think that the war would end with Voldemort.

Draco and Ginny discover that the truth is a funny creature, especially when you can’t lie successfully.

Sequel to the Veil of Memories. Thirteen years after the death of Voldemort, Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley have built on their love for each other to move beyond the nightmares of their past. But now the new problems of the world around them threaten to encroach on their new-found harmony: their only daughter Siosia is sorted into Slytherin; their best friends Ron and Hermione go through marital strife; and their niece Caroline becomes embroiled in a twisted new version of the Defense Association. But worse than all this, a shadowy, unseen enemy has emerged, one that could threaten not only the fragile peace that Harry and Ginny have forged but the fate of the wizarding world itself.

Draco hates what he has become. He tells of how he fell in love with a certain red-haired witch and contemplates where it all went wrong...

Cate Moon is your average witch, with a dull but paying job, a large family that doesn't know how to leave her alone, and a little secret of her own. How will she cope when George Weasley is drawn into her world? Is someone coming after her family? GW/OC.

Scorpius Malfoy was always a loner. The Lone Wolf, as he was often called. He didn't have any friends, nor did he care to associate with the other students anyway. But when he starts his sixth year at Hogwarts, things change. After many a collision with Rose Weasley, maybe a friendship may start to form despite what they both want.

Harry faces up to his destiny as he begins the hunt for the Horcruxes. What price will he have to pay to finally vanquish the Dark Lord? Can he survive...will the Trio remain intact...will he finally get the girl and live happily ever after?

If Harry had believed that defeating Voldemort would bring an end to his troubles, he would have been sadly mistaken. Fortunately, he was never that optimistic. In an increasingly paranoid, prejudiced and isolationist post-war wizarding society, Harry finds himself with far too many secrets for someone hoping for a long life. Like the fact that he's gay, and in love with his womanising best friend. And financing an underground resistance movement or two. And far more powerful than he dare let anyone suspect. But Fate hasn't finished with Harry Potter yet. Voldemort had a secret of his own. Harry hasn't uncovered that one yet, but when he does, it'll change everything.

Ever wonder what happened to Dudley and his parents after they took that right turn off Private Drive during Harry's 7th Year. Well, this is my own interpretation of what happens to Dudley, and how he changes from the character we all knew and mostly disliked to someone who embraces the wizarding world...

GoF in the words of Cedric Diggory as you've never seen him before. Nobody's hero and nobody's fool, not only did he survive Voldemort's rebirth but he's decided to set the story straight about his sixth and 'final' year.

AU: Voldemort chooses Neville, James & Lily live, but Severus Snape still finds himself on a quest for absolution. SSLE

"It’s a sad thing, really, that we all strive for the perfection we can never reach. Even the stars themselves struggle in their attempts of outshining the sun in the night sky." Sometimes the question that you should ask is if perfection is really worth it. HP/DM

Surviving the war was easy. Learning to live again will be much more difficult.

"Well, that's an interesting question, and quite a long story. I suppose the real reason Ginny Weasley's like this is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger."

COMPLETED. Voldemort is defeated at a terrible personal cost to all involved inthe final battle. Ron is crippled by a hex and finds life miserable until he meets a Muggle woman who gives him unconditional acceptance and love. Now there is only the rest of the Wizarding World to deal with!

Delve into my mind, the mind of a Harry Potter-obsessed young woman, and read the conversations which I have had with Harry Potter characters. Find out why the chicken had to go to the bathroom and all those weird things that Jo forgot to mention.

Ginny dumps Harry after he finishes the Auror Academy. Apparently, he's a horrible a kisser and she wants someone that doesn't need training. So why does Hermione seem delighted at this news?

The one man who can convict Lucius Malfoy has been missing since the end of the war, and nobody admits to knowing his whereabouts. Hermione Granger just wants to do her job and get on with her life, but the denizens of the Forbidden Forest have other ideas. NOTE: FA has declared chapter 7 of this story to be too explicit for this site. If you wish to view it in its uncut entirety, you may do so at Fanfiction.net or Ashwinder. The links are in my profile.

Draco Malfoy must take a mate in order to ascend to the throne as the Prince of Nightmares. The only choices he has, though, are Voldemort, Dumbledore, and Harry Potter, which really isn't a choice at all. DracoHarry slash

Harry Potter, Seeker extraordinaire for the Chudley Canons is retiring at the age of twenty-seven, looking to go back into the world of fighting Dark Wizards. As he is readying to enter into a new career as an Auror, he meets Ginny Weasley in the Leaky Cauldron. What happens when they get back together… overall fluff, right? Maybe not.

The Second war is over, all ended as it should. Harry Potter defeated the Dark Lord and the world rejoiced. Seven years later Draco Malfoy finds that he must deal with death, love and life all at the same time. Meanwhile Ginny Weasley has made a name for herself in the Wizarding medical career. What happens when two worlds collide with the help of a magazine and a rather determined friend? Can old enemies form bonds of friendship? Can friendship ever become more? Just exactly how well did Ginny’s brothers teacher her to fight? And what say does Draco's drug of choice have in all this?

A truthful account of the events of last March.

Post-Hogwarts. When Ginny teams up with Harry to destroy the last of Voldemort's Horcruxes, they receive help from the most unlikely of sources: Draco Malfoy. Assassination attempts, Horcruxes, vampires, and love potions. D/G/H

Dean loses a potentially embarassing piece of art, but in looking for it, he finds something altogether different.

Lucius Malfoy, patriarch of a dysfunctional family, tries to regain what he had before the war. Unfortunately, Draco’s goals do not match his, and he does everything in his power to mould his son into the ideal pure-blood. Is it too little, too late?

The Dark Army has no place for a man who can't kill, yet Draco Malfoy is not about to join the Light; is he? Stuck in a house with Remus Lupin, it's well past time for Draco to reflect, grow, and make the choice between what is right and what is easy.

When Hermione is taken prisoner by the Death Eaters, her life changes forever. Struggling for what she believes in along with her very survival, she finds herself drawn into her own personal battle of wills against a Dark Wizard who believes it would have been better had she never been born. But hatred can so easily turn into obsession, as Hermione discovers to her cost as she finds herself drawn into a twisted relationship with her captor; a relationship that destroys everyone it touches.

While waiting for his 17th birthday to arrive so he can leave the prison of the Dursleys', Harry learns new information about himself, his aunt, mother and Albus Dumbledore. The information he learns will greatly increase his power while at the same time change how he feels about the woman given the task of raising him.

Ginny Weasley steals a Time-Turner and devises a plan, but her initial intentions are ruined by clumsiness. Instead, Tom Riddle kidnaps her and takes her back with him to 1945. The only witness of Ginny's disappearance is Draco Malfoy, and he has a hidden agenda of his own. Will Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Luna be able to find her in a time when the Wizarding World was consumed by fear of exposure?

Ron and Hermione realize their pent-up feelings for each other. At the same time, Hermione doesn't realize what's in front of her face. Neither does Ron. This is very SI. Read to find out who it is.

At the end of the summer after his fourth year, Harry is attacked--but not by a Dementor. To their horror, Harry's friends realize that he has no memory of them, Hogwarts, or anything to do with the Wizarding World. How will a Harry who thinks he's a Muggle adjust to life at Grimmauld Place? And how will the Order battle Voldemort when the Boy Who Lived doesn't even know the Dark Lord exists?

Adrian has no memory of the first twenty one years of his life. Now, fifteen years later, a strange dream acts as the catalyst that brings his memory back, and he remembers who he is. He knows he must go home, but has no idea what he'll find when he gets there... especially where his son is concerned.

Takes place directly after HBP. After a slight disagreement with the Weasleys, Harry heads back to Privet Drive. Along the way, he meets two people, strangers, who give him the locket. Who are these mysterious strangers and what do they know about the Dark Lord? And what exactly happened to Malfoy? Join the Trio on their quest for the horcruxes in a race against time. Warning: Torture, character deaths, and mayhem lay ahead. Proceed with caution.

Lexen Chelseer is an interdimensional time traveler who doesn't seem to stay dead. He comes to Hogwarts in hopes of finding a way to save his family. But this world's Harry Potter died at the age of 5. Can Lexen fill the shoes of the Boy-Who-Lived? How many times does he have to die in order to protect those he cares about?

Lily wants to have a calm, peaceful seventh year, "the kind of year Buddha would have at Hogwarts." But Claudius the Lovely, Lis Singleton, Vesta Casanova, Severus Snape, and James Potter are sure to make sure her life is as hectic as ever...

As a little boy, Charlie Weasley cultivated a passion for dragons. But that little boy had no way of knowing where that passion would take him in life. These are Charlie's adventures – the ones only hinted at in canon. My story consists of vignettes of Charlie's life, with emphasis on those rare, brief moments when JKR mentioned him in passing, and few other gaps filled in.

In the aftermath of the prank, Sirius is sent out to do damage control. His mission: talk to the one person Snape would go to and find out what she knows. It should have been simple, but as he quickly finds out, things with Vivian Snape are rarely simple.

This story of Bill and Fleur's wedding from the perspective of the trio and Ginny Weasley. And why is Mrs. Weasley so interested in what is going on? The story comes from multiple Points of View and has several retrospectives back to HBP. Please bear with the perspective shifts, as this is a bit of a "non-linear" tale.

Lily and James Potter had a daughter instead of a son. When they died, Dumbledore left the baby, Bethany Lily, at the Dursleys'. However, Vernon did not want a freak in his home and Petunia didn't really want to have anything to do with her sister's child. Beth was left on the steps of an apartment bulding. In the morning, the residents discovered the baby and wondered what to do. One of the tenants happened to be a single witch named Natalia Harper and recognized Bethany. She decided to adopt the child and Bethany grew up as Bethany Lily Potter-Harper. Eventually, Beth attends Hogwarts with her best friend and makes four other friends. I have also put this fic on fanfiction.net

Meet the epitome of yin/yang: Follow the journey of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks throughout the last Harry Potter installment.

Al Potter's first year at Hogwarts is full of amphibians, reptiles and riddles.

Having broken up with Ginny just a few short weeks ago, Harry finds himself confronted with Ginny's unhappiness and his own guilt. Feeling utterly confused, Harry must decide what to do: to break up with Ginny for her own safety, or to seek the most happiness he has ever known. Luckily, an old friend comes back to help him make his decision, revealing two worlds: one where Harry and Ginny got back together and the other where Harry decided it would be safer not to. On a journey years into the future, Harry discovers just what an impact their relationship has on everyone else, enabling him to finally make his decision.

Harry Potter wakes up...in the Slytherin dormitory. Why?

Confession may be good for the soul, but Draco learns that it's also hell on the nerves and libido.

You know when you watch the Harry Potter movies and there are some parts you just HAVE to laugh hysterically at? Well, if you do, are they Ron's quotes? If you have answered yes, to both of these questions, then you should read this fic because it explores 'all those weird Ron quotes,' and DO they have a basis in reality - or at least dream reality.

Two unexpected allies join Harry, Ron, and Hermione in their quest for the Horcruxes. This fiction describes preparation for the search rather than the search itself, and the emphasis is on bonding among the characters--particularly Harry, Remus, and Sirius. Questions are answered, secrets revealed, and plans made. Ties of friendship are explored more closely than romantic ones, but the assumed romantic pairings are Remus/Sirius, Ron/Hermione, and Harry/Ginny. Action begins on August 1st of what will be Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts, and continues over the next few days.

Post-Hogwarts. Auror Draco Malfoy is on the verge of being fired. Given one last chance to redeem himself, he is sent to investigate dark activities at a muggle university, where he stumbles upon a certain saviour who disappeared from the wizarding world two years ago. Harry/Draco slash

Post-DH. Al, hoping to distinguish himself from his father, enters his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and befriends the most unexpected group of people. Meanwhile, the wizarding world enters a new era of political turmoil, as the Minister-to-be is assassinated, and Harry and the others find themselves in a wholly different, much more subtler conflict.

Dumbledore is dead, and Hermione has stayed at Hogwarts to research spells that will help the Trio in their quest for the Horcruxes. There, she has a most unlikely visitor, who informs her that there is a more important task, even more important than defeating the Dark Lord, awaiting a person brave enough enough to undertake it.

Five meetings with Harry Potter. He never stays long, but he always leaves with the promise that he'll come back in the end. And all Ginny can do is wait for the end to come.

Minerva McGonagall's life and adventures during World War II after she leaves Hogwarts

Destroy the Horcruxes--that's Harry's goal, until an Aperio throws him and two other unknown people into a world where the prophecy never existed, his parents and Sirius are alive, and Ginny went to Azkaban for opening the Chamber.

The offspring of Fred and George are at Hogwarts, creating some mischief of their own. But things are not as they seem, and sometimes, mischief can lead to danger.

What does it take to be a Weasley? A bunch of little OneShots where the Weasleys explain in first person their lives and the problems they must face everyday. All end in the same battle against You-Know-Who. Relationships of all kinds and sometimes angsty.

It's the day of Draco's wedding and, as you'd expect, everything possible goes wrong.

Severus Snape discovers that there's more to his pointless death than his miserable life counted on. A story of redemption, love, and second chances.

Some stories are worth hearing again and again, be it a story of love, a story of war, a story of death, or a story of life. But a truly good story ... you can never be content to hear it only once. ..::..

When Prince Charming didn't return after the evil wizard was overthrown, the heartbroken heroine escaped to create her own life- far away from the prince. But when a Weasley wedding invitation arrives, there's no room for excuses: she has to go home.

Hogwarts isn't reopening and Voldemort is back and more alive then ever. Sirius is gone and so is Dumbledore. Living through the heartbreak from Ginny and the pain from the deaths, Harry is left to find the Horcruxes with Ron and Hermione by his side. What happens when he meets a girl that has a surprising past which has a lot to do with Harry?

After five years away, Hermione returns to Britain with a shocking surprise. And Harry won't like it.

Our tale begins immediately following the tragic events on the night of Dumbledore's murder. Where did Severus Snape go? Who helped him? The story is an exploration into the many faces of an undercover spy. Who is this man? What is his true self? Can redemption be found in loving another? Travel a while with the Slytherin spy and see how his life evolves.

While Harry visits the remains of his parents' home and their graves, he meets up with Hogwarts' replacement for Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class. She has been sent by Professor McGonagall to try to talk Harry into returning to Hogwarts to finish out his last year. Will she prove herself helpful to Harry in finding and destroying the horcruxes? Will she help Harry with his lovelife? Only one way to find out...

**Marauders Era** Farren Graham is a seventh year Muggle-born at Hogwarts. During her final year, she finds herself becoming involved with some of the least expected people: Sirius Black and Severus Snape. This is her story. Read the shags, the fights, and how she connected everything.

Esme and Severus married, with children! Another fluffy Snape story - continues where Owls and Musings left off.

Bellatrix Lestrange delights in cruelty, and she can torture with words as well as with a wand. One night alone with Severus Snape is all she needs to break him.

Lily Evans hated James Potter...but not always. A change of heart came around one day, and James and Lily started falling in love. This is dedicated to all the hopeless romantics out there.

The subject of Muggle Studies has been inadequate, to say the least. The need for new curriculum means someone must spy out the Muggle world for information. Guess who gets to do the honors? How can the great greasy bat from the dungeons be the best person to fix it? And who will he be forced to work with to get it done? Beta'd by Somgliana.

The war is nearly over. The avengers are closing in. But the losing party has prepared a legacy - a wound in the side of reality, which will outlive even their final defeat. (Note: WRITTEN BEFORE DEATHLY HALLOWS)

Romilda Vane doesn't ask Ginny about whether Harry has a tattoo on his chest for no reason. A lesson in how rumours get started. (Another missing scene from HBP; sequel to "Mad About the Boy." Decidedly H/G with a little R/Hr.)

Harry has to either kill Voldemort, or be killed. This much is certain. But has anyone, besides the now deceased Dumbledore, really paused to give thought to exactly what this means? A sensitive, emotional, and kind young man having to watch more loved ones die, to bear whatever atrocities happen to him personally, and to finally be forced to murder another human being? This fic explores one possible outcome, five years after the defeat of Voldemort. Hermione, with Ron, has been incessantly trying to locate Harry, or at least ascertain his fate, to bring some measure of closure. Hermione's latest investigation leads to nothing, again, but she runs into a talented, melancholy young musician performing outside the Three Broomsticks...

When one confronts her past, things never go according to plan.

He was the Chosen One, the Boy-Who-Lived, the one who would defeat Voldemort and bring about the sought for time of peace. None of that came to pass. Due to a series of events whose true sequence was lost in the sands of time, Harry Potter was destroyed, and a Dark Age was ushered in over the Muggle and Wizarding worlds alike. Almost twenty years into The Dark Lords’s rule, in this time of misery and despair, a young slave, Felicity, stumbles upon secrets from the past and attempts, with the help and hindrance of those she encounters along the way, to right past wrongs. If, that is, she is able to make a sacrifice that would change her, and those she loves, forever.

In the immediate aftermath of the Final Battle, five witches gather to help their hero.

Severus Snape returns from a gruelling night of potions brewing to find Harry asleep.

Everyone's fed up with Ron and Hermione's "secret" attraction to each other. What happens when a small plan to get them together turns into a massive project involving a good portion of the student body? A humorous read for anyone who finds the Ron/Hermione romance in the books mind bogglingly frustrating.

What if two people were forced to spend the rest of their lives together? What if they were forced to get married? Based loosely off the Marriage Law Challenge at WIKTT...Hermione/Draco

Love. Betrayal. Confession. Deception. Politics. Misconceptions. Facades. Choices. Escapes. Mistakes. Time-turners. Professor Snape becomes an impromptu psychologist when he decides to find out what's wrong with Pansy Parkinson. Conversations about school quickly become analyses of the faults of Slytherin society, what's really underneath Pansy and Snape's facades, and questioning why Dumbledore trusts Snape. When a time-turner gets involved, a twist of time becomes a twist of fate, bringing about three decisions that will change the world: Whom will Harry trust, whom will Pansy trust, and, in the end, whom will Snape serve?

Harry declares a vendetta against Draco Malfoy and his lowlife cousin Dudley for sexually assaulting Ginny in order to get revenge on him.

Glimpses into the life Dudley Dursley manages to make for himself after the Second Wizarding War.

Draco Malfoy becomes entangled in one of Dumbledore's genius-inspired (doubtful) schemes...he lost his heart in losing his family, but will it ever return? His fellow (enemy) Aurors will do all they can to destroy him, except for one who will be the alpha to his omega.

Her milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard And they're like Its better than yours And she's like I'm not just some score Ginny is practically swimming in young men, but there's a problem...BOYS ARE NEEDY!!!

After a sixth year prank, Dumbledore is determined to watch Snape for any ill effects. For all his apparent wisdom, however, not even he could have foreseen the extent of those effects. AU after HBP.

Alice Tyler is ready to start her seventh year at Hogwarts. Despite the growing amount of Death Eater attacks, Alice is determined to enjoy her final year. On her to do list is plotting to get her best friend Lily to finally go out with her cousin James, all the while staying fiercely independent herself, of course. But things are about to happen that Alice didn't intend, and a chain of events is started that may lead to the destruction of her and her friends. The world works in mysterious ways, and sometimes even the best of plans backfire. Slight AU.

A Post-HBP tale of Harry's efforts to prepare to face Voldemort for the final time. His quest spans the globe as he acquires the skills and objects he needs to finish off Voldemort for good. He learns that he is not alone and true friends are worth their weight in gold. Rated to be safe. Several character deaths.

Every great love story has to start somewhere--and this one begins in the dingy front hall of Number 12 Grimmauld Place. First in the "Marauders Redux" series.

Sirius, James, and Peter seem to think that since I read so much, I should write as well. Something like keeping a journal. So they gave me this. This “nifty, big, red, beautiful book”, according to James. Peter says to make it my life’s work, adding to it as my life progresses. They’re all idiots, but maybe I’m even worse, since I’m here writing in the blasted thing. (This fan fiction is an AU)

Harry Potter had once believed that his seventh year at Hogwarts would be a year to cherish. Yet as September approaches, Harry finds himself reluctant to return. When he does, the castle is nearly empty, its corridors silent, the teachers half-hearted and afraid, and the High Table devoid of the familiar twinkle-eyed headmaster. Those of Harry's friends that did return have changed as well: Ron seems to be hiding something, Hermione is obsessed almost to the point of insanity over finding the Horcruxes, and Neville is acting more violently than before after every Death Eater attack. Harry himself is becoming increasingly attached to the question of "What if...?" and also, the words "Neither can live while the other survives."

What starts out as another one of their fights turns into something much more unexpected.

How Harry Potter grew up.

With Voldemort winning the Second Wizarding War, Hermione goes searching for help, and finds it: at the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart. Crossover with Angel.

When a dark family secret comes to light, everything that Sirius believed in is thrown into chaos. Except that Harry remains, a constant reminder that sometimes our greatest mistakes can be our most precious gifts. (I no longer post here, but this story can be found in its completed form on ffnet, same pen name)

[NEW CHAPTER: THIS FIC IS BACK!] "Lily sprung to a sitting position. It wasn't working. She could not stop thinking, stop remembering. He had reminded her of what it felt like to feel alive again and it was too much. Reciting four words to herself was not going to suppress it any longer." -Chap. 4

"Ginny, what did we used to do to make ourselves feel better?" At this, Ginny smirked with a positively evil smile. She grinned so ferociously that her teeth must have looked like fangs. She began to break into sweat as memories crossed her mind and caressed her fancy like a sensual touch. What exactly had she and Hermione done to make themselves feel wanted? "This is what we used to do," Ginny purred...